We are proud to announce we will be working with Steve Bicknell‘s brand new electronic label 6dimensions.
With a long history of releasing quality underground club music, Steve’s new label will see him releasing his own music as well as re-issuing some of his hard to find early works. Along side his own releases the label has releases scheduled from two brand new artists – Metro Skim and Heartless.
You can pick up the Steve Bicknell and Metro Skim now in 12-inch format, a forthcoming 12-inch from Heartless called Impulse Module, is due out September 15th. Check out Steve Bicknell’s brand new podcast for Resident Advisor below.
‘Bicknell’s RA podcast sums up his recent hot streak. The mix is comprised almost entirely of unreleased music from 6dimensions. Like all of his work down the years, it’s characterised by an unwavering focus and a striking clarity of vision.’
Track List
Metro Skim – Inner Resistance – 6dimensions
Metro Skim – Dominant – 6dimensions
Heartless – Impulse – 6dimensions
Steve Bicknell – Harmless State – 6dimensions
Heartless – Are you Even There Anymore – 6dimensions
Metro Skim – Be Aware – 6dimensions
Metro Skim – Untitled – 6dimensions
Steve Bicknell – Stability Of Awareness – 6dimensions
Steve Bicknell – harmonious balance – 6dimensions
Heartless – Mathilda – 6dimensions
Muff Man – Sit On The Face – Future Sound Records
Metro Skim – Patterns Of Expression – 6dimensions
Metro Skim – Hidden Powers Inside – 6dimensions
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Tags: 6dimensions, Heartless, London, Metro Skim, Podcast, Resident Advisor, Steve Bicknell, Techno
For Mark Barrott, a sunset isn’t a lazy postcard, or a watercolor in a dentist’s office, or a Corona commercial. It is life. Every week this summer, the DJ and producer is soundtracking sunsets on the idyllic isle of Ibiza, treating each one as a gift, their mystic hues captured in Instagram photos fuzzy enough to be real. Barrott has spent years trying to translate that hot orange buzz into sound, culminating with his beatific Sketches From an Island series, which alchemized all of the easygoing sounds of a classic Balearic DJ set—funk, ambient, lite jazz, soft rock—into laptop suites of his own creation. He’s now known as one of the world’s finest purveyors of music to chill out to, but Barrott himself is hardly taking it easy. As he closes in on 50, this maestro of bird calls and quiet thunderstorms is still seeking out new ways to get loose.
Following his stunning Music for Presence EP from earlier this year, which had him transforming vintage Eno ambience into utter bliss, he returns with “The Pathways of Our Lives,” a track that arrives at its euphoria by completely different means. Working with a full band as well as a string quartet, the single finds Barrott at his most lush, combining the infinite grooves of mid-’70s Marvin Gaye or Barry White with dense Afrobeat percussion, hypnotizing chants verging on chaos, clean house piano chords, and—why the hell not—a cabana-friendly flute line floating above it all. Across more than seven minutes, Barrott layers and builds, using his DJ know-how to produce something as pristine as it is alive. It’s more sunset music, but you’ve never heard a sunset quite like this.
International Feel will release The Pathways of Our Lives on July 28th, 2017.
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Tags: Balearic, Ibiza, International Feel, Mark Barrott, Pitchfork, The Pathways of Our Lives
Placebo mastermind, the late Belgian keyboardist and visionary Marc Moulin. ‘Mona Call’ is a tune he composes for ‘Dimanche Musique’, a popular radio show that ran on RTBF, the Belgian French speaking radio, from 1966 to 1974. Being one of the first pieces Moulin ever released on record, it enjoys international cult status.
Listen to Kiosk ‘Mona Call’
Mona Call is taken Funky Chimes: The Belgian Grooves From The 70’s that is out now on Sdban.
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Tags: Belgium, Funcky Chimes, funk, Jazz, Kiosk, sdban, Soul, Vinyl
Born out of frustration in the middle of nowhere (Uruguay), responsible for bringing DJ Harvey back into the studio and famous for its curveballs (Adventure Party, Marcellus Pitman and Baldelli remixes). Mark Barrott now runs the label from his compound in Northern Ibiza, which, according to Harvey’s definition of Balearic Music (‘music made in the Balearic Islands’), makes him a true modern purveyor of the genre. Releasing eclectic nu-Balearic music with quality cover art, it’s at the forefront of the nu-Balearic movement, a scene of diggers mining library music, obscure b-movie soundtrack gems and for post-party meanderings. Check out the article on Mixmag here.
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Tags: Balaeric, Ibiza, International Feel, Mark Barrott, Talamanca System, Wolf Müller
This Funky Music Video Was Danced into Existence
You might not have any idea of what you’re looking at in this music video for Belgian five-piece STUFF‘s track “Axlotl”—but no matter, because that’s all part of the fun. Plus, we’ll explain. The song itself is taken from STUFF’s latest, and second, album Old Dreams New Planets. An album that journeys across “broken hip-hop, electronica and jazz-influenced future funk.”
The video for “Axlotl” features abstract shapes jiving to the song’s snazzy, freeform, I’m-dancing-in-a-field-lost-in-an-MDMA-rush vibe. It’s made by Frederik Jassogne, a Belgian artist, film editor, and theater stage designer. The creative process of this video was featured on VICE – The creators. You can read the article here.
axlotl is taken from the second STUFF. album old dreams new planets that is out now on Sdban Ultra.
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Tags: avant-gardejazz, Frederik Jassogne, old dreams new planets, Sdban Ultra, Stuff., Vinyl, Yto Barrada
Here’s a live session of the track ‘strata’ recorded by Kurt De Leijer for the last LeFtO – In Transit episode ; a five-part documentary series with Belgian DJ LeFtO, following him across the globe as he presents five different cities through the medium he knows best: underground music. (recorded inside a stripped down hall of Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen)
STUFF.’s new album, ‘old dreams, new planets’ is released on 28 April on Sdan Ultra
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Tags: avant-gardejazz, Belgium, funk, Hip Hop, Lefto, old dreams new planets, Sdban Ultra, Stuff.
